Quotes About Whale Hunting

#1. His gun was a .357 Magnum, great for whale hunting. It was overkill for anything on two legs. That was human. I felt very human staring down that gun barrel.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#2. *The ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head, still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin.

Herman Melville

#3. A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

Martin Luther

#4. I knew I was treading on thin ice. Criticism of anyone's art, no matter how good the intentions, could be risky business.

Emma Scott

#5. Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!

Steven Wright

#6. The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits.

David Foster Wallace

#7. Goldilocks effect" - that everything is just right. (For the record, these three possible universes are known respectively as closed, open and flat.) Now,

Bill Bryson

#8. Oh, what a dark and dreary tune is the beating of my heart.

Ray Else

#9. The doctor explained that this type of relapse occurred in less than ten percent of childhood leukemia patients, and that Megan would require frequent spinal taps to inject chemotherapy drugs directly into her cerebrospinal fluid.

Julianne MacLean

#10. Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.

Gertrude Atherton

#11. She kept silent for fifty miles as he looked out his window at the last gasps of fall in the distant hills - pretty red and yellow swaths of foliage surrounded by sad patches of gray, like an unfinished oil painting.

Drew Magary

#12. Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

Ridley Scott

#13. Every place is different, but every place is the same, because you carry yourself with you wherever you go.

Steve Yarbrough

#14. This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.

Danny Glover

#15. Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

Alexander McQueen

#16. You're different, you know."
"Only different from you," he said. "Not different from me.

Belinda Bauer

#17. My entire life, I've never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp.

Dan Pearce